OBITUARIES. 
The following deaths have been recently announced :—Dr. Oscar BAUMANN, 
the African explorer, at Vienna, on October 12; EDwarp Casr, on September 
22, an English engineer well known for his method of groyning to prevent 
encroachments of the sea on the coast ; CoRNELIO DESINIONI, on June 29, in 
Gavi, Italy, a historian of geography, in his 86th year; on September 19, in 
Poturzyca (Galicia), in his 72nd year, Grar Wuiapimir Dziepuszyckl, curator 
and founder of his Natural History Museum in Lemberg, which is especially 
rich in birds; Prof. H. R. GxicER, sometime assistant on the U.S. Geological 
Survey, at Springfield, Ohio, July 18; on July 2, in Regensburg, WILHELM GEYER, 
a well-known enthusiast on aquaria; on July 16, NikoLtaus W. GricoRJEW, a 
young phyto-palaeontologist, in Charkow; Dr. Racnar Hutt, geographer and 
botanist, at Helsingfors, in his 42nd year; Paut Janet, the illustrious professor 
of philosophy at the Sorbonne; on July 2, in Para, the botanist, Dr. F. Kunua, 
about to start on a botanical expedition to the tributaries of the Upper Amazon ; 
on June 30, in Stockholm, in his 78th year, Dr. Marrs Apotr LINDBLAD, 
for twenty years docent in botany in the University of Upsala, known as a 
mycologist ; in Budapest, in his 55th year, Giza von MrHALkovics, the famous 
anatomist, professor of anatomy and embryology in the University of Budapest ; 
on October 16, Dr. Epwarp Orton, geologist, professor in the Ohio State 
University, president of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science ; on August 9, Mr. Witt1AM Pamp Lin, in his 93rd year, the doyen of 
English botanists, who contributed largely to the ‘ London Catalogue of British 
Plants”; Lady Prestwicu, who recently published a biography of her husband, 
at Parkstone, on August 26, at the age of 66 ; on August 2, in Buenos Aires, in 
his 72nd year, GEorG RuscHEWEYH, a keen lepidopterist ; in Scutari (Albania) 
the ornithologist GzorG FREIHERR SCHILLING voN CanstaTT; on October 21, 
JAMES SIMPSON, for eighteen years curator of the Anatomical Museum, University 
of Edinburgh ; W. A. Snow, late instructor in entomology in Stanford University, 
drowned on October 10, in San Francisco harbour; on August 3, in Lucerne, 
SIEGFRIED STAUFFER, founder of the Natural History Museum there; in 
September, Dr. Cart Gustar THomson, curator of the entomological depart- 
ment of the zoological museum in Lund, an authority on Hymenoptera; at 
Lakefield (Ontario), Mrs.C. P. Trarxt, botanist, in her 97th year; on September 9, 
in Péls (Steiermark), the ornithologist Dr. SreEPHAN FREIHERR VON WASHINGTON, 
in his 41st year; Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S., the distinguished geologist, on 
November 18, at the age of sixty-two. 
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